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LIGHTING DEVICE FOR GAS Filed Sept. 13 1921 -Fzy.1. v

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ROBERT BOONE, OF ASBURY PARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR, BY IVEESNE ASSIGNFNIENTS, TO BOONE HEATER, CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A COBFOBATION OF NEW YORK.

LIGHTING DEVICE FOR GAS.

Application filed September 13, 1921.

Z '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT BOONE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Asbury Park, in the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements inLighting Devices for Gas, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to lighting devices for gas or other vapor fuel burners, and the principal object is to provide a device of this nature which shall be especially adapted for use in floor heaters.

Another object is to produce a movable gas lighter which may be moved to one position for igniting the lighter and to another position for lighting the burners.

With these and other objects in view, the invention resides in certain novel construc tion and combination and arrangement of parts, the essential features of which are hereinafter full described, are particularly pointed out in the appended claims and are illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a top plan view of a floor heater provided with my improved lighter.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary vertical sectional view of the same on line 2-2 of Fi re 1. a igure 3 is a view on line 33 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a view on line 4-4 of Figure 2.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts in all views.

Referring to thedrawing in detail, 10 represents the register or top plate of any stand ard make of floor heater, 11 the side walls thereof, and 12 the gas manifold which may be connected with the gas main in any suitable manner. Connected to the gas manifold are any number of valves 13 each controlling the flow of gas from the manifold 12 to a respective burner of any well known desirable type. Each valve 13 is controlled by a rod 14 having its upper end secured and rotatably mounted'in a control plate 16 secured in the register or top plate 10.

Serial No. 500,376.

Another valve 17 communicates with the manifold 12 and controls the flow of fuel therefrom into a pipe 18 which conducts the fuel to the pilot or lighting device proper. The valve 17 is controlled by a rod 19 similar to rods 14.

The lighting device proper comprises a pipe 20 which is movably jointed to a pipe 18 and is provided in its free end. with a small aperture or gas orifice 21. A collar 22 is secured conveniently about pipe 20 and provided with a suitable pull rod 23 having at its free upper end a finger piece 24.

When the device is to be used, the finger piece 24 is pulled up so that the pilot is moved up to the dotted line position; Rod

19 is then turned to permit a flow of gas through the orifice 21, and this jet is lighted, The pipe 20 is then lowered until the jet is opposite an opening 15 in the side ofthe heater above the burners. The rod 14 of the desired burner is then "turned so that the gas is permitted to flow from the respective burner and the jet of the pilot passing throug he aperture 15 lights this burner:

WVhil have described what I deem to be the most desirable embodiment of my invention, it is obvious that many of the details may be varied Without in any way de arting from the spirit of my invention and therefore do not limit myself to the exact details of construction herein'set forth nor to anything less than the whole of my invention pivoted to said vertical pipe and means extending above the floor for moving said pilot light with respect to said burner.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with the burner of a floor heater having a manifold a vertical pipe connecting with said manifold, a pilot light pivoted to said vertical pipe and means extending above the floor for moving said pilot light with respect to said burner, and means controllable from said floor for regulating a pilot light pivoted to said vertical pipe, and

the flow of gas from said manifold to said means extending above the floor for moving pilot light. said pilot light into register with said aper- 3. In a device of the class described, the ture.

combination With the burner of a floor In testimony whereof I have aflixed my heater, a frame provided with an aperture signature.

and arranged over said burner, a manifold a vertical pipe connected with said manifold, ROBERT BOONE. 

